I've been having some issues with scripts that ask IE to visit a lot of URLs eventually killing IE and failing. In these instances, ruby.exe is sitting right around 30Mb of memory, Excel (used to import data) is around 5Mb, and IE works itself up from 100Mb to 1.5Gb.
At it's most basic point, I have a script that gathers around 2,000 strings into a single array. The script then iterates through this array formatting a URL for IE using these strings. IE uses a goto to visit the page. For instance, I boiled a script down to the code below and experience the same memory problems: array = [blah] #around 2,000 entries def test array.each do |city| url = "http://www.google.com/search?q=#{city}"; ie.goto url if ie.contains_text(city) puts "yay" else puts "nay" end #if end #array.each end #test_goto I've omitted the assigning of the array, but since excel and ruby aren't hoarding memory, I don't believe this is related. So in this case, why is IE eating so much memory? I tried another instance where I added the ie = Watir::IE.new and an ie.close to the function, but opening and closing IE for each url took up more memory. Is there another way I should be doing this? Right now IE will survive for about 400 URLs and then die out. I'm running it on an XP laptop w/ 4Gb RAM and dual 2.2Ghz procs. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Watir General" group. To post to this group, send email to watir-general@googlegroups.com Before posting, please read the following guidelines: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Support To unsubscribe from this group, send email to watir-general-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
